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  1. Salesforce regrets firing 4000 experienced staff and replacing them with AI (maarthandam.com)
    ×6.72 89 | 144 points by whynotmaybe 2 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: MIT grad, junior dev layoffs – watching my daughter lose faith in merit
    ×3.14 74 | 17 points by MITfather 2 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Python Applied Mathematics Labs (byu.edu)
    ×1.75 48 | 81 points by vvin 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Microsoft denies rewriting Windows 11 in Rust using AI (windowslatest.com)
    ×3.07 40 | 66 points by zdw 14 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Meta is using the Linux scheduler designed for Valve's Steam Deck on its servers (phoronix.com)
    ×4.57 32 | 688 points by yellow_lead 2 days ago | 383 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Why We Abandoned Matrix (2024) (hackliberty.org)
    ×1.89 31 | 190 points by Flere-Imsaho 1 day ago | 169 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Why FedRAMP Authorization and CMMC Level 2 Are Now Table Stakes for GovCon AI (procurementsciences.com)
    ×0.62 64 | 5 points by mooreds 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Microsoft please get your tab to autocomplete shit together (ivanca.github.io)
    ×2.82 27 #55 | 222 points by AmbroseBierce 18 hours ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. RFK Jr. says the U.S. should look to Europe on vaccines (politico.com)
    ×2.21 50 | 4 points by RickJWagner 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Free Software Foundation receives historic private donations (fsf.org)
    ×3.90 26 #44 | 187 points by pentagrama 12 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Show HN: I treated my brain like a buggy server and wrote a patch (Shi-Mo Model) (github.com/317317317apple-a11y)
    ×2.70 75 | 6 points by ShiMo_Protocol 50 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Show HN: Tinykit – self-hosted Lovable, deploys to itself (tinykit.studio)
    ×2.33 44 | 4 points by mmmateo 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Silicon Valley's tone-deaf take on the AI backlash will matter in 2026 (fortune.com)
    ×3.14 24 | 66 points by howToTestFE 17 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Inside CECOT – 60 Minutes [video] (archive.org)
    ×13.32 21 #69 | 1642 points by lawlessone 2 days ago | 543 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Available domain names for your next project (sneakydomains.com)
    ×2.49 67 | 4 points by starf1sh 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. AI Withholds Life-or-Death Information Unless You Know the Magic Words (substack.substack.com)
    ×2.40 21 | 37 points by llamataboot 13 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Nvidia to buy assets from Groq for $20B cash (cnbc.com)
    ×4.92 20 #35 | 624 points by nickrubin 20 hours ago | 358 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. We replaced H.264 streaming with JPEG screenshots (and it worked better) (helix.ml)
    ×3.11 19 #87 | 511 points by quesobob 1 day ago | 313 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Achieving Lasting Remission for HIV (knowablemagazine.org)
    ×2.05 33 | 4 points by PaulHoule 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Show HN: Why many AI-generated websites don't show up on Google (pagesmith.ai)
    ×1.53 49 | 3 points by manu_trustdom 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Researchers achieved 1,270 Wh/L in an anode-free lithium metal battery (postech.ac.kr)
    ×1.65 19 | 111 points by giuliomagnifico 23 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. PEP 686 – Make UTF-8 mode default (python.org)
    ×1.84 51 | 3 points by tosh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Unifi Travel Router (ui.com)
    ×2.68 18 #79 | 457 points by flurdy 1 day ago | 410 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Looking for Decent Conversation?
    ×1.74 18 | 96 points by kmstout 22 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Donald Knuth's 2025 Christmas lecture: the Knight's Tours (thenewstack.io)
    ×2.57 70 | 4 points by MilnerRoute 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Why do so many "agentic AI" systems collapse without persistent state?
    ×1.08 35 | 3 points by JohannesGlaser 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Beijing is enforcing tough rules to ensure chatbots don’t misbehave (wsj.com)
    ×1.58 17 | 82 points by bookofjoe 21 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. European Majority favours more social media regulation (yougov.co.uk)
    ×2.74 16 | 85 points by snowpid 22 hours ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Steam Store is offline (steamstat.us)
    ×2.81 15 | 67 points by DetectDefect 19 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Sad times StackOverflow takes down all its physical servers (stackoverflow.blog)
    ×1.73 27 | 3 points by slroger 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. AMD entered the CPU market with reverse-engineered Intel 8080 clone 50 years ago (tomshardware.com)
    ×2.40 14 #76 | 188 points by ksec 1 day ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. How I Left YouTube (zhach.news)
    ×2.40 11 #50 | 179 points by dhashe 19 hours ago | 269 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Spaced repetition for efficient learning (2019) (gwern.net)
    ×1.48 10 #64 | 131 points by tsenturk 20 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Some Epstein file redactions are being undone (theguardian.com)
    ×4.98 9 #47 | 976 points by vinni2 1 day ago | 751 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Texas app store age verification law blocked by federal judge (macrumors.com)
    ×1.91 9 | 314 points by danso 1 day ago | 243 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. X-ray: a Python library for finding bad redactions in PDF documents (github.com/freelawproject)
    ×3.13 8 #57 | 693 points by rendx 1 day ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Project Dropstone: A Neuro-Symbolic Runtime for Long-Horizon Engineering [pdf] (blankline.org)
    ×0.47 11 #33 | 22 points by epicprogrammer 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Mattermost restricted access to old messages after 10000 limit is reached (github.com/mattermost)
    ×2.97 9 #15 | 270 points by xvilka 6 hours ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Ruby 4.0.0 (ruby-lang.org)
    ×5.08 6 #18 | 556 points by FBISurveillance 13 hours ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. The Fisher-Yates shuffle is backward (wordpress.com)
    ×1.10 5 #25 | 55 points by possiblywrong 7 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. We invited a man into our home at Christmas and he stayed with us for 45 years (bbc.co.uk)
    ×5.94 5 #8 | 595 points by rajeshrajappan 7 hours ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Mt. Gox CEO Karpelès Reveals Details of 2014 Collapse and Japanese Detention (bitcoinmagazine.com)
    ×2.20 3 | 82 points by giuliomagnifico 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Tell HN: Merry Christmas
    ×7.75 3 #11 | 1671 points by basilikum 18 hours ago | 377 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Microsoft Is Finally Killing RC4 (schneier.com)
    ×1.61 4 #54 | 8 points by jandeboevrie 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Ask HN: What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth?
    ×2.83 2 | 435 points by nishilpatel 2 days ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. When compilers surprise you (xania.org)
    ×1.30 2 #59 | 231 points by brewmarche 1 day ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Alzheimer's can be reversed to achieve full neurological recovery in animals (case.edu)
    ×4.25 3 #4 | 211 points by thunderbong 2 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves (404media.co)
    ×4.45 1 #88 | 808 points by chaps 3 days ago | 470 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Nabokov's guide to foreigners learning Russian (twitter.com/haravayin_hogh)
    ×1.72 1 | 216 points by flaxxen 1 day ago | 448 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???